ISDEF

Investment in IT business

15th October 2005, Saturday

Introduction

	Alexander Galitsky Entrepreneur and Investor

Topic language

Russian

Investing in Russian high-tech

	Vladimir Bernstein Russian Technologies Venture Fund Investment Director

Topic language

Russian

Panel: "The ecosystem of the Russian investment industry, and why investment in Russian high-tech makes sense?"

Vladimir Bernstein, RT-Fund; Allan Martison, MTVP; Roman Simonov or Vitaliy Belik, Intel Capital; Oleg Byahov, Ministry of IT and communication; Konstantin Fokin, Ministry of economy and trade;

Topic language

Russian

What to expect from a Western Based Venture Capitalist?

	Scott Maxwell Insight Partners

Topic language

English

Panel: Is it the right time to start the deal in Russia?

Scott Maxwell, Insight Partners; Haig Farris, Fractal Capital representatives of Vector Capital, Index Ventures, Prime Technology Ventures; Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures

Topic language

Russian

Panel: What big guys could offer to entrepreneurs?

Baruk Pilo, Cisco; Roman Simonov or Vitaliy Belik, Intel Capital; Lydia Shtarkman or Nikesh Arora, Google; Mark Sochan, Nuvonix; Roel de Hoop, Puimu Tech; Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures; Igor Agamirzian, Microsoft

Topic language

Russian

7 criteria of success

	Ratmir Timashev Aelita ex-CEO and Founder

Topic language	Russian
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Panel: "What do we expect from investors?"

Ratmir Timashev, ex-CEO and co-Founder of Aelita; Sergey Beloussov, CEO and co-Founder SW-Soft; Stepan Pachikov, ex-CEO of Paragraph and CEO and Founder of EverNote; Sergey Andreev, CEO of ABBYY; Dmitry Simonenko – ex-CEO Plesk and CEO of InnaLabs; Artiom Yukhin, Founder and CTO of A4Vision;

Topic language

Russian

Angel Investing in start-up and early stage companies

	Haig Farris Fractal Capital

Topic language	English
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Panel: "Angels and seed investments"

Anatoly Karachinsky, IBS; Khachatur Arushanov, SMM; Alexander Burmistrov, FinMarket; Andrey Vakulenko, NPO Inform; Igor Ashmanov "Ashamanov&K"; Viktor Remsha, Finam; Andre Masalovitch, Inforus

Topic language

Russian